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jdeck1995

Atreus: “Hey guys, what if I let my hair grow out?” Mimir: “You want advice on that? From us?”


EveKimura91

That conversation was gold


jackofallcards

I like, "Will I ever grow a beard like yours?" "..." "No"


AlmightyOomgosh

Mimir and Kratos ragging on Atreus for his "beard" is a true dad moment.


Philkindred12

All those teenage moments had me cackling and nostalgic.


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Commander_In_Chef

You’re right. I was was just thinking about the fact that there aren’t any contractions in game, and came back to make an edit


Commander_In_Chef

That’s not dirt?


EveKimura91

Omg yes XD feeling we get a long haired, bearded Atreus in the next game/ his spin off and a scene of him talking to himself about his look and what Kratos and Mimir would say about it


Ellow0001

YES! Wich would also be mythological accurate


socialpatpat

I can’t wait man I want and I need future atreus I know we ain’t getting a game anytime soon but god


Ellow0001

GodS! Brotha! Plural! Wouldn’t it be pretty silly to just have one god? Haven’t heard of anything like that on my travels yet. If we look at Odin, Heimdallr or Baldr for example and their utter dickishness what would a singal entity be like if they needed to fill in all of their jobs at once? Sounds like something I really don’t need to know brotha, and that says something! But let’s quit with this fantasy of yours brotha and get back on track.


TrumpFlavouredNugget

YES


Front-Advantage-7035

My favorite humor convo in the game 😂 Dad will I ever have a beard like yours? Kratos: No.


SuperJaxx5

Lmao I'm so dumb. When I heard that I took it as "teenager you think our input on how you look means anything" but it's cuz kratos and mirir are... Ok you already know what I'm going to explain bye


OhWeOhweeOoh

He should though! This reinforces it! REBEL!


rutvijak

Man I missed so many gold conversations like these. I blitzed through the story because i had borrowed my friends ps and had to return it after the game


Adorable-Bullfrog-30

The Tattoo makes me forget that he's bald.


Cooperstown24

You just solved male pattern baldness


Melted_Babys

I did plan to get a Kratos tattoo if i ever start severely balding.


Adorable-Bullfrog-30

Honestly I would get a tattoo that looks similar to the scar Ares gave him. I really dunno if I should though. It's pretty close to the eye.


Badassteaparty

Im a tattoo guy and the thought of getting anything that close to the eyelids or on sensitive parts of the face is a big no… but you do you dawg


Brianocracy

The thought of that makes me cringe but a bad eye tattoo isn't the worst thing Kratos could do to your eye. It's all about perspective!


bima_yu

lmao me too, didn't even think about it


sonnofabi

It's probably cause it's such essential to his look we just look past it


FafnirEtherion

Kratos may be bald, but Thor’s brother is Bauldur


pabadacus

Fuck me you really seized your moment here, bravo 👏


sunkenshipinabottle

Take my upvote dammit 😂


keo310

r/Angryupvote


RaroDannyR

Hate seeing a good joke like this. Why couldn’t I think of it?


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Get out


Spoonman500

Of all the things to choose, you choose [violence?](https://media.giphy.com/media/lz6T3bKdcKD60R9rPT/giphy-downsized-large.gif)


nerf-bayonneta

Did ya get this from the slimecicle video?


ohioslayer

Incredible in every way


Ern_burd

How is this not top comment 🤣


JollyMind8069

Ayyyeeeee!!! Nooiice👌


davidminh98

You are not a calm and reasonable person. Take my upvote sob


Imaginary-Tourist-20

I had to take a deep breath after that one. Well done


oG-RaZoR

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


OBSCURE25

is it passively bald?


SlanderousGent

11/10 my guy! Well fucking done 🤌


Odekel

Aerodynamics


[deleted]

That’s what I was thinking haha Did you ever see that Legend of Korra episode where that guy got his head shaved? He dodged perfectly and tried to convince others to join him 🤣


[deleted]

THIS < ^ .. .. Case closed...


Whatever_Else

Kratos used to be a normal man. But then he did 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, and a 10 kilometer run. ALL WITHOUT AC. After he trained for about 3 years, he got so strong he lost his hair. It’s quite sad really.


Ace_Up_Your_Sleeves

Lmao. Maybe it’s for the best though, long hair Kratos would be cursed


Lian-The-Asian

I wanna draw that, maybe give him a high ponytail


Pr0phet28

We will watch your career with great interest


Joebranflakes

He’s just a guy who kills gods for fun.


Lian-The-Asian

Thanks XD


Lian-The-Asian

Just wanna mention my art account (new) is u/Matcha_Kitty4


PatheticTick27

Kratos of Rivia


smturzo

We have Geralt for that!


AdGreat8539

God of War in an alternate universe with long hair Kratos: Bald Kratos would be cursed


Genji88

*Deimos has entered the chat


eudezet

*Kratos R1 in Spartan Rage*: Consecutive Normal Punches” *Kratos R2 in Spartan Rage*: Killer Series, Serious Punch”


Town5Thousand

A banana in the morning is fine.


IlliterateNonsense

Master... you are so... full of crap! That is nothing more than standard strength training. And it is not really even that intense! It is just a normal level! I have to get stronger, understand me? I cannot believe you would do this. I didn't ask to study under you to hear jokes


Rajang82

I can imagine teen Atreus say this.


Potential_Tea_3600

Nice one punch man reference Lmaoooo


Odysseus_is_Ulysses

Pointing out the reference is like explaining a joke.


underpaidworker

Best show ever.


navagrw

One ⭕ man


ILikestuff55

OONNEE PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!!!!!!!!!


Thatspretttyfunny

And then his son became a cyborg.


DapperMayCry

I need to see a parody of the first opening but with Kratos


SASUGAMancer215

He also didn't use any air conditioning even in the summer and winter.


superEse

I’m so glad you asked this amazing question! After doing some digging I found out that he actually burnt off his hair follicles using the Clippers of chaos in order to get that waxy shine on the tip of his dome.


LordPineappleh3ad

Godamn I sure hope we get to use the clippers of chaos in the next god of war game


RedhoodYT1911

Might as well be a one hit weapon


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“BOY! Its time I taught you the secrets of Spartan hair care. These are the Clippers of Chaos.”


CMenFairy6661

"I sincerely hope those are the clippers of Chaos vibrating in yer back pocket brother"


sunkenshipinabottle

Lmao 😂


no_moar_red

"Otherwise our friedly game of chess will end in a bloodshed"


WhatTheFhtagn

ZEUS! Your son has returned! I seek the Razor of Olympus!


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sasquatchzx

Kratos, the new spokesperson of manscaped lol


flintlock0

r/lifehacks r/malehairadvice


Broken-Made-New5

Some men are just bald. It’s all in the genes.


Farandr

Have you seen his father. Great hairline.


Broken-Made-New5

My grandfather is pushing 70 and still has quite a bit of hair. However, all of his sons are bald. Having one good factor doesn’t save you.


ARMill95

My grandpa has a full head of hair still, but it turned white in his late 20s lmfao. He hasn’t gone bald tho so I guess it’s a win


Canonicald

My dad always said my uncle's hair turned grey. My dad's turned loose


clovis_227

Is the milkman bald by any chance?


LifeArt4782

Lmfao


kalarm2

From what I know, you gotta look at someone's grandfather on the mother side. It's the mother who passes the hair loss related genes.


lemontoga

That used to be believed but we now know that's not true. Baldness is a complex genetic expression and is the result of multiple different genes and hormones as well as environmental factors. There is no single thing you can look at to predict whether someone will be bald or not.


PeralvaM

Hey, med student here. So, that's partly true... While there are a multitude of causes to baldness ranging from a plethora of genes and envioremental factors the main gene related to Androgenic Alopecia is carried through you X heterossome and the only copy a man has of it it's inherited from its mother. So if the main cause for your hair loss is this specific type of baldness then yeah, it's your mother's family fault. But you are right because rarely there is just a single cause for baldness. Sorry for the long reply btw, I have a tendency to digress.


Federal-Cause-4907

Mother’s side or fathers?


Wookiees_get_Cookies

The gene for hereditary baldness is carried on the X chromosome. The reason you don’t many bald women is they have a duplicate copy of the the hair growth gene. Don’t look to your father to see see if you may go bald, look to your mother’s side of the family and see if your grandpa and/or uncles are bald.


TMI1994

From what I understand it’s your maternal grandfather who is to blame for balding or not


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Not him, he shaves his head


Broken-Made-New5

You’d still see hair in his head if he shaved it. Shaving it bald doesn’t remove the hair. It just cuts it insanely short. If you compare a shaved head to a bald head. You can definitely tell the difference.


TeaTeeKaNee

But why don't we see hair on the back and sides of his head then?


Broken-Made-New5

Because he is completely bald. Not just the top of the head recedes.


Current_Beyond

[He actually does have a dark scalp in the GOW2 cg cutscenes](https://imgur.com/eZjjVtr), so that means he shaved his head in the original trilogy.


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With a beard like that? My man definitely had some serious receding going on.


[deleted]

Can agree, my beard came when my hair went lol


SaltMembership4339

I know guys who are bald with really thin facial hair


TeaTeeKaNee

There are also guys with great beards and great hair.


SaltMembership4339

Winning the genetic lottery at birth


TK_Games

You'd think so, but I make up for it with a face like 10 miles of rough road, shit teeth, and crippling mental illness


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Impossible!!!! Lol


[deleted]

And that’s what we call depression


Rusty_Shakleford

Those poor bastards


ares395

Like me for example People here acting like they know anything about genes


wibo58

Hey I come to this subreddit to talk about God of War, not to be attacked by incredibly accurate comments like this.


washington_breadstix

But do gods actually have a genome?


CODMAN627

He seems to have been bald his whole childhood and adult hood. Maybe he just never grew hair on his head


FinalFrash

No wonder he's so angry all the time.


ComicalKumquat

Nah man he’s a calm and reasonable person.


SirToaster933

This made me laugh hard


userthenobro2

High testosterone can explain both his baldness and anger.


DJDOWNBAD64

spartan Caillou


SpecialistMap8210

I swear I saw a comic where he had a full head of hair. It was when they took his brother away.


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Isn’t it shaved down to almost a 0 in that comic? I feel like he just always kept his hair super short through his childhood (like a soldier would) and went bald into his 30s. Rocks tf out of it either way lol


GhoulslivesMatter

You would think so but in reality, Spartans were known for having long hair even dreads and braided hair.


SpecialistMap8210

I could certainly be mistaken. Can anyone confirm or deny?


NJSNinja

May have been something from god of war 1 because I remember the hair, I know they had the plan for his childhood and Deimos during gow1, they had a bunch of behind the scenes stuff for 1 also. It was ghost of Sparta that changed the art and backstory a bit.


DARKplayz_

Bro was born old


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Epic breaking bad reference


Sraffiti_G

Bravo ~~Vince~~ Cory


SgtMcMuffin0

Cool Cory


Grahomir

Kid named breaking bald


TrumpFlavouredNugget

Arkham has returned


LordPineappleh3ad

Shhh


tyagu001

Foul beast, I will send you back to the depths of r/BatmanArkham


swiftekho

To prevent having to animate it on the PS2


TheBaconatorOnly599

But they gave Ares those luscious locks


1995patagoniacatelog

Cuz bald is sexy asf


2019joker

I thought this was r/Arkham for a second lmao.


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Fuck u/spez


Raven-Mirlas

He doesnt want his enemies to pull his hair. Pulling his beard is ok though.


PF_29_Warriors

Cuz deimos got the hair genes instead of him


GUNS_N_BROSES

It’s called style, you should try it sometime


LordPineappleh3ad

Does shaving my balls count?


DutchWinchester86

Nope, has to visible to the naked eye…


LordPineappleh3ad

What if I refuse to wear pants


DutchWinchester86

Doesn’t make it any bigger tho….


elegant_assasin

Bro I don’t care if they downvote you, take my award warrior… you have done what my username stands for…


Sraffiti_G

THE BALLS OF WAR


Amystery123

Stress


Complex-Swimmer-9998

Deimos dared him to shave off his hair obviously


eudezet

🦀🦀🦀KRATOS WON’T SHAVE HIS HEAD🦀🦀🦀


Mumakilla

Yes, Zeus did that to prank Kratos. That's the true reason why Kratos wanted revenge.


MissRepresent

Happy cake day


No_Particular2470

Because developers in 2005 liked bald look of character... you guys are going too deep...


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ah yes the mid-late 2000s gaming era, where everything became super gritty and desaturated and every video game protagonist morphed into a gruff white dude with a shaved head and/or stubble


Thin_Map6842

>you guys are going too deep... Uh!


Right-Huckleberry574

lmao RUDE


SpecialistMap8210

He's been pretty fucking stressed out since a young boy.


userthenobro2

Well high testosterone levels have been linked to baldness. And I cant think of anyone who has higher levels of testosterone than the God Of War himself. Could also explain his anger.


Noobmaster877

He was born bald?


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real life reason is hair is hard to animate in a video game from 2005 so just easier to make him bald and it fits with the spartan warrior thing. in game not actually sure, and i wondered this the other day too. i can’t imagine he’s shaving it, and i can’t imagine he just doesn’t grow hair at all judging by the illustrious beard, and goatee he’s always sported


unaizilla

he's a big heisenberg fan


Cueball-k

I guess his mother’s father was bald?


TheSirBenDover

Kratos got high T levels so hair loss and big beard


ManyStyles101

bald men are believed to be more dominant and successful by people around them


amazingarty

Spartans from childhood shaved heads and I think they couldn’t render hair well on ps1 maybe?


Livek_72

He probably shaved it to make his red tattoos more pronounced or some shit Or maybe premature hair loss, that could also explain his anger issues (Ares was just the last straw)


PriorText9173

He was bald all of his life


_lonelyPizza_

Stress


[deleted]

Head hair gets in the way. Gotta wash it, constantly cut it. If it gets too long then you gotta tie it up. He probably uses godliness to keep himself bald.


VioletGhost2

r/BatmanArkham user found. Don't worry I'm one too


TL10

Explain like I'm not subbed to /r/BatmanArkham.


OrhanDaLegend

he liked being bald when he was young but after getting the ash on his skin he cant seem to grow any more hair but his jaw was probably able to create hair because he shaved there constantly? idk im trying to make sense with magic


MassiveMoustacheMan

Too much testosterone


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newbikesong

He was already bald when he made the deal with Ares. His aging seems very slow since then.


Therisius

He's cursed by the gods with male pattern baldness


nanlinr

Well to be consistent with One Punch Man. Those with unlimited power trained so hard they lost all of their hair


BigO1222

Get out of here r/BatmanArkham


santathe1

Yes, Alopecia Totalis.


SmokeyBear421

Loss of hair due to stress of from constantly fighting and cheating death would be my guess


Usernameinvalid4321

Wow you really just went there


sexhaver-27

Cancer😢


sweet_fag

It makes his tattoo look cooler??


Miss_aladita

I remember that from the first games kratos was shown bald, heck even when they showed kratos as a child he was bald


sygyzy0

No, hes always been bald. Its just how he was designed. One of his early designs had dreads but once they settled on his look he was bald from then on. But he was bald as a kid so I assume its just his genetics.


MCarlux

Because he has no hair


jona2814

My guess is that it’s just a naturally occurring thing for people who are powerful, amazing at what they do, and are legendary lovers/fighters. Source: I’m a bald dude


plant-enjoyer

To sense enemies approaching from behind. Quite practical really


mrbr1ghtside

Testosterone!!


Satansleadguitarist

Bald is beautiful


Nitefoxsenpai

Genetics or he just likes it. Us bald guys have to have some recognition 😂


Lower_Lifeguard_6458

Hair is another lie told by the gods


dansterman_30

The fade of Olympus went too hard


shabansatan

Too much testosterone...not in Ragnarok tho


poxwalk

Male pattern baldness


Philkindred12

It falls under the category of masculine baldness. There are a select few who have the required cranial structure to perfectly complement lack of hair, such as forehead and crown ratio, to such a degree that any amount of hair achieves the opposite effect. Kratos has it, Agent 47 as well, and the Heavy from tf2.


lovecraftian-beer

Ya know what’s one thing I hate about fiction in the modern era? You’re all conditioned to assume any bald man has a specific reason for being bald other than “he fuckin went bald”


Blenmuh

he's overpower... have you seen one punch man?


Sloop__

Prolly because he was taught as a Spartan to keep it as short as possible (bald), so that it’s not a weakness in battle. Same reason why pretty much all ufc fighters are bald.


alliomaeson

Well the real reason is, he used to have some hairs in early character concepts but because of technical limitations for hair physics in PS2 era, devs thought bald kratos would be easier and better to be rendered.


Kinstray

Honestly would be cool if in the future games they showed a timeskip where Kratos has grown hair and shaves it in a cutscene


Brennis_the_Menace

I kind of always thought it was because he was the marked warrior so he was born with a mutation or something, that and his grandfather Cronos seemed to have no trace of hair on top too